At least ten more persons have died of COVID-19 pushing Ghana’s death toll to 1,079 , the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has announced.
The country’s active cases now stand at 6,701 after 449 new coronavirus cases were added to the national tally after laboratory confirmation.
As at 2 September 2021, the GHS reports that the country’s total confirmed cases stands at 121, 737 out of which 113,957 have recovered.
So far, 127 persons are in severe condition while 50 remain critical, according to GHS. Cases detected at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) are 2,685 with 2,533 recoveries.
Breakdown of regional cases:
Greater Accra Region – 65,410
Ashanti Region – 20,260
Western Region – 6,861
Eastern Region – 6,090
Volta Region – 4,684
Central Region – 4,373
Bono East Region – 2,422
Bono Region – 2,054
Northern Region – 1,704
Upper East Region – 1,389
Ahafo Region – 1,033
Western North Region – 967
Oti Region – 773
Upper West Region – 607
North East Region – 256
Savannah Region – 205
Germany donates 1.5 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccines to Ghana
Meanwhile the director of communication at the office of the President, Eugene Arhin, has said President Akufo-Addo is dispatching a flight to take delivery of 1,500,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines donated to the country by Germany.
Addressing the presidential press corps on Monday (30 August), Arhin said the donation follows a meeting between President Akufo-Addo and the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, in a recent visit to the European country.
“The German Chancellor, I am happy to inform the Ghanaian people made it known to the President that a total of 1,200,000 vaccines were to be given to Ghana, basically, the AstraZeneca vaccines. A few hours ago, I got confirmation from the President that this has increased from 1,200,000 to 1,500,000 and steps have already been taken, in fact, according to the President, he is dispatching a plane immediately to go to Germany to take delivery of the 1,500,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccines,” Arhin said.
Extra vaccines
Arhin further indicated that as part of efforts to secure vaccines to vaccinate the Ghanaian people, the United States government has also donated 1,500,000 doses of the Moderna vaccines to Ghana.
“All in all, we should be hitting five million vaccine doses so far and I believe at this particular stage, it is a good initiative that has been undertaken by the government of President Akufo-Addo towards helping to rid our country of COVID-19 and hopefully, his pledge of ensuring that 20 million Ghanaians by the end of this year are vaccinated, slowly but surely, I believe we are no cause for alarm realising that particular pledge of ensuring that the entire adult population of Ghana is vaccinated,” he said.
Fred Dzakpata
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